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上海大学2007年攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试
综合英语试题
Section 1: Reading Comprehension (36 points)
Directions: In this section, you will find two passages each of which is followed by some questions. Read the passages carefully and then answer the questions in our own words on the answer sheet. Remember that each answer should be limited to less than ten words in order to be valid.
Question1-9
Perhaps the earliest forerunner of writing is a system of clay counting tokens used in the ancient Middle East. The tokens date from 8000 to 3000BC and are shaped like disks, cones, spheres, and other shapes. They were stored in clay containers marked with a nearly version of cuneiform writing, to indicate what tokens were inside. Cuneiform was one of the first forms of writing and was pictographic, which symbols representing objects. It developed as a written language in Assyria from 3000 to 1000BC. Cuneiform eventually acquired ideographic elements associated with it.
The oldest known examples of script-style writing date from 3000BC; papyrus sheets from 2700 to 2500BC have been found in the Nile Delta in Egypt bearing written hieroglyphs, another pictographic-ideographic form of writing.
Chinese began as a pictographic-ideographic written language perhaps as early as the 15th century BC. Today, written Chinese includes some phonetic elements as well. The Chinese writing system is called logographic because each of the full symbols or characters represents a word. Cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphs eventually incorporated phonetic elements. In syllabic systems, such as Japanese and Korean, written symbols stand for spoken syllable.
The alphabet, invented in the Middle East, was carried by the Phoenicians to Greece, where vowel sounds were added to it. Alphabet characters stand for phonetic sounds and can be combined in an almost infinite variety of words. Many modern languages, such as English, German, French, and Russian, are alphabetic languages.
1.When and where did the earliest form of writing probably originate?
2.What does the ter m〝pictographic〞most probably mean?
3.What characterizes an ideographic language?
4.What is a hieroglyphs?
5.What is cuneiform?
6.Do written symbols represent spoken syllable sounds in Korean?
7.Is Chinese mostly a pictographic or logographic language?
8.Who invented the alphabet?
9.What characterizes an alphabetic language?
Question 10-18
The centenary the birth of William Faulkner, one of the great modern novelists, was celebrated in September, 1997, Faulkner wrote about the southern states of the United States of America where he grew up, and where his family had an important part to play in the history of that region. His work became a touchstone for insights into the troubled issues of southern American identity, race relations, and the family interrelationships of the old-time southern gentry, Faulkner was also a
technically advanced writer, introducing a narrative seen form several points of view in his novel. The Sound and the Fury and using an imaginative approach of 59 monologues by various characters in As I Lay Dying.
When Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950, it was due recognition for a writer with a long and productive career. Faulkner had already produced such major works as the novels Flag in the Dust (1929), The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930), Sanctuary (1931), Light in August (1932), Absalom, Absalom(1936), followed by three novels about the Snopes family, short stories, including Faulkner’s most reprinted wor k〝The Bear〞, and a novel focused on race issues, Intruder in the Dust (1948)
When Faulkner accepted the Nobel Prize for Literature in Stockholm in December 1950, his speech emphasized that he wished to continue writing, but in a positive way that affirmed the power of humanity to prevail over adverse circumstances. As he said in his speech, he still felt that, despite the threat of nuclear war then hanging over the world, the central concern of the writer should be“the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself”.He wanted the tensions and problems that he had cast the spotlight on in the southern states of America to be resolved by the life-affirming attitudes and actions of his characters.
In the years following that speech, Faulkner’s work often adopted a lighter, more conciliatory tone. His story A Fable(1954), an allegory which placed Jesus Christ at the heart of World WarⅠ, won for the 57-year-old writer a Pulitzer Prize, an award he also received for his novel The Reivers(1962). The Reivers was Faulkner’s last novel, published in the year that he died after injuring himself in a fall from a horse. He was admitted to hospital in Oxford and died aged 64 on July 6, 1962 of a heart attack.
Like playwright Tennessee Williams, Faulkner was a major voice who spoke for the troubled heart of the southern states of America. His achievement is all the more remarkable because, as a schoolboy, he was not only a frequent truant but also reportedly failed to each pass grades in English classes. His collected short stories, novels, allegorical stories and other writing form a legacy of literature which casts profound illumination on the special culture of the South.
10.In which year was William Faulkner?
11.Where are the most of Faulkner’s novels set?
12.Why do we say Faulkner was also a technically advanced writer?
13.What does the world “touchstone” most probably mean?
14.What is a monologue?
15.Why Faulkner awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950?
16.According to Faulkner, what should be the greatest concern of a writer?
17.For which novel was Faulkner awarded a Pulitzer Prize?
18.What can we infer about Tennessee William?
Section 2: Cloze (34 points)
Direction: In this section, you will find two passages with 34 words missing. Read each passage carefully and then fill in each of the blanks with one suitable word. Remember to write your answers on the answer sheet.
Passage1
Stress just seems to be a “must”＿1＿all modern men: the Olympic skiers, the track-and-field runners, the athletes, the singers and dancers, the writers and music ＿2＿, even the husbands and wives all seem to compete ＿3＿stresses with great willingness. When a husband comes home
late, for instance, the ＿4＿seems to have butterflies in her ＿5＿and comes down on him like a ton of bricks, demanding that he should tell her where he had been. The husband, on the other ＿6＿, would feel nervous when he sees that another man is chatting his wife up in a ＿7＿of a street. Modern marriage seems to carry a mythic significance and spouses seem to ＿8＿on each other as if they’d be happy to get the goods on the other for any unfaithful act. Not ＿9＿does love bring a lot of stresses, money seems fertile ＿10＿for the development of all sorts of stresses. Never before have men so longed for ＿11＿as they do today. Those who are tightening their ＿12＿and cutting corners actually have itching palms and can’t ＿13＿envying others who are making bundles or rolling in it. To these people, money seems to be more valuable than anything ＿14＿. But strange ＿15＿, once they’ve got the money they want, they seek new stresses by splashing it about on things that are usually frowned upon. They use it to gamble, to splash out＿16＿girls or lavish it on drinking or drugs. But one thing is ＿17＿: they never stop seeking newer stresses.
Passage 2
Few of us may realize that life is a＿18＿. In gambling, there are only two possibilities:＿19＿and losing. On the bright side of the coin, we win. So long as we gamble ＿20＿destiny, the odds are usually in our favor, especially when we use common ＿21＿. A woman, for instance, who does not have the charm to win the love of a man may ＿22＿herself on the success of her career, without even regretting about having plain Jane ＿23＿. There are great women who do not yield to men’s dominance or refuse to be at the ＿24＿of their fate. The result is usually ＿25＿they enjoy some other forms of happiness which other women find missing in their lives. To many of us, gambling is, in most cases, a nontoxic drug ＿26＿boredom and apathy, and may well help preserve good temper, patience and optimism, all of which will ＿27＿us a world of good. On the whole, the gambling instinct is a characteristic of all forms of life. Those who dare to gamble will certainly have a better ＿28＿to win than those who ＿29＿hot and cold or get stuck in two minds. Of course, those who take no ＿30＿will have to be satisfied with nothing exciting at all. But one point which they should keep in ＿31＿is that they have no right to smite with their tongues or to foam at the ＿32＿at those who have achieved something through gambling. As a matter of fact, few of us have the right to condemn ＿33＿as few of us can say they never gamble---even if it is only ＿34＿a few pence a week in a football sweep or a “lucky dip”.
Section 3: Translation (30 points)
Part A: English-Chinese Translation
Directions: Translate the following passage into Chinese and write down your translation on the answer sheet.
The Internet has come a long way from its origins as a research network. Today users routinely listen to radio broadcasts across the net, download short videos from the World Wide Web and access information from thousands of government and private databases. But the fortuitous success and growth of the Internet has severely strained the functional limits of the Internet protocol as well as the underlying router network. Of even greater concern are the new applications in the offing which require far more facilities than the network now provides. Internet commerce, gigabyte file transfer, live video transmission, secured email/data and voice/video conferencing are just a few of the applications that Internet service providers are coming out with.
The smorgasbord promises to choke an already overloaded network. Simply adding bandwidth to the Internet backbones is not an answer. It will only raise the cost of admission for everyone. Fortunately, there is a way to clear up the Internet’s current bandwidth bottleneck while providing a rich platform for tomorrow’s services. The solution is ATM. To see how A TM can facilitate the evolution of the Internet, we will look at the challenges the Internet currently faces and consider how ATM can play a role in overcoming them
Part B: Chinese-English Translation
Direction: Translate the following passage into English and write down your translation on the answer sheet.
清晨往松林里去散步，我在林荫树畔发现了一束被人遗弃的蔷薇。

蔷薇的花色还是鲜艳的，一朵紫红，一朵嫩红，一朵是病黄的象牙色带有几分血晕。

我把蔷薇拾在手里了。

青翠的叶上已经凝聚着细密的露珠，这显然是昨夜被人遗弃了的。

这是可怜的少女受了薄幸的男子的欺凌？还是不幸的青年受了轻狂的夫人的玩弄呢？昨晚的甜蜜的私语，今朝的冷清的露珠……
我把蔷薇拿到家里来了，我想找个花瓶来供养它。

花瓶我没有，我在一只墙角上寻着了一个断了颈子的盛酒的土瓶。

蔷薇呦，我虽然不能供养你以春酒，但我要供养你以清洁的流泉，清洁的素心。

你在这土瓶中虽然不免要凄凄寂寂地飘零，但比遗弃在路边被人践踏总要好吧？
Section 4: Writing (50 points)
Directions: In this section, you are to write a composition of no than 500 words on the top ic“I Believe I Can Fly”. Remember to write your composition clearly and convincingly on your answer sheet.。